1990s Dining Room Chairs

Presenting a set of 8 Knoll BRNO tubular chairs in camel leather. Likely from the late 90s based on the label. Current retail price would be over ...

An exceptional set of 12 cream leather vintage Knoll Studio Mies van der Rohe MR10 chairs with lace backs and base and original Knoll branding. Price shown is for the set of 12. These chairs are one of the very first cantilever design chairs ever designed by van der Rohe. Comfortable and perfectly balanced they have become one of the most enduring designs of the 20th Century with manufacturing starting in 1927 and still continuing to this day. Originally designed as a dining chair they work equally well as side chairs or as a set of funky office meeting room or conference chair. Originally known as the Weissenhof chair (after the exhibition it was first launched at) and produced by Gebrüder Thonet within Europe, the license to produce the chairs in the U.S. was later acquired by Knoll International who started production in the late 1950’s. The chrome work was imprinted with Knoll’s branding from around the 1990’s and are also identified by a number of key indicators: apart from weight and the general quality of craftsmanship, the Knoll version of the chair is recognised by the lace back and base which along with the offset chrome seat stretcher and small rear back slide stop hooks are key signatures of Knoll’s original production method. This set was produced, by reference to the previous owners who had owned them since new, in the mid 1990’s. They remain in very good vintage condition with light signs of use as the chairs were rarely used during their lifetime. This amounts to some light marks, denting and stretching of the leather through use, and light scratches in the chrome. There are no tears or rips in the leather and no rust or flaking of the chrome and all the chairs have both the impressed Knoll Studio branding in the chrome and the Knoll label as shown in the photographs. The concept of using metal tubing as a supporting structure in chair design is credited to the British manufacturer RW Winfield who produced campaign chairs in a cantilever design for the Great Exhibition in 1851. This original design was known and documented to have been an inspiration to both Marcel Breuer and van der Rohe. Breuer was the first to produce a design in chrome pipe work and inspired by the curved handlebars of his Adler bicycle he designed the Wassily chair in 1925. Although this was not a cantilever chair it helped to establish a base production method that was built on by others. This resulted in the first true cantilever chrome chair, the S33, being designed by Mart Stam...

Set of 6 BRNO dining chairs, model 255, in polished chrome-plated flat bar steel with new white ostrich leather seats by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Knoll, American, American 1990s....

Made by: Knoll Studio, Germany, 1929 / circa 1990 Material: leather, chrome-plated steel Size: 23 w × 22 d × 31.5 h in Description: Fabric manufacturer's label to underside ...

Made by: Knoll Studio, Germany, 1929 / c. 1990 Material: chrome-plated steel, leather Size: 22.75 W × 22.5 D × 31.5 H in Fabric manufacturer's label to underside of each exa...

Set of 8 BRNO dining chairs, model 255, in polished chrome-plated flat bar steel with brown leather seats, backs and arm pads by Ludwig Mies van der...

For your consideration are these black leather chairs in excellent condition showing very little use. Brno chairs with tubular frame and thin pad seats and backs as was the original ...

Fabulous set of 4 signed Knoll Brno lounge dining chairs by Mies Van Der Rohe in white leather. All original in excellent vintage condition with minimal wear to leather. Absolute no ...

An incredible set of four (4) signed cantilevered MR 20 armchairs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Knoll. In excellent showroom condition, this collectible set of arm chairs possess t...

This set of six (6) signed (authentic) early production Knoll 'Brno' Chairs are in an incredible deep purple leather that looks black in some lighting and charcoal grey in other ligh...

A complete set of eight Brno chairs designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Knoll International. These feature extremely heavy steel frames with original upholstery. Chairs were pro...

Pair of Brno chrome chairs, designed by Mies Van Der Rohe for Knoll, American, circa 1990s.